Psychology And Politics

Question 1

Relationship between politics and psychology?

Answer 1

Bi-directional

Question 2

Psychopolitics

Answer 2

Explicit politization of the psychological

Question 3

Phobic object

Answer 3

Thing or person causing feelings of dread , fear and hate

Question 4

Negro Myth

Answer 4

A political function- act as repository ( a figure in whom whites can symbolize all lower emotion)

Question 5

Prine focus of Fanon’s work?

Answer 5

Comparison of black and white races in context of colonization

Question 6

Neurosis

Answer 6

Used to analyze pathological desire to be white.

It stems from conflict between fundamental wish and need to repress this wish

Question 7

Dream of turning white

Answer 7

Neurosis of Blackness

Question 8

Racial identity

Answer 8

Primarily sociopolitical, and only ones internalize does it become psychological

Question 9

Unconscious Attraction

Answer 9

Ambivalence

Question 10

Ambivalence

Answer 10

Co-existence of contradictory affects/ impulses

Question 11

Collective Unconscious

Answer 11

Idea that all humans share a supply of inherent ideas and archetypes that are genetically supplied , universal and can be spontaneously produced in symbolism of different cultures and time

Question 12

Broad Generalizations

Answer 12

The assumed universality of certain concepts and principles is one way if dominating , colonizing modes of thought to be reinscribed in post-colonial context

Question 13

Manic jean Thinking

Answer 13

Approach to culture where all values and consepts are split into binary opposites. One that is positive and one that is negative